Shirt



March 8, 1938. K. P. SEACORD 2,110,580

SHIRT Filed July 2, 1955 INVENTOR.

ham mm PL Seucord BY ATTORNEY.

Patented Mar. 8, 1938 QFFICE SHIRT Kenneth P. Scacord, New York, N. Y.

Application July 2, 1935, Serial No. 29,449

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in shirts and particularly in that type of shirt which has a collar attached thereto.

The object of the invention is to provide a 5 simple and efficient means for restraining the collar of the shirt, and particularly the front points of the collar, to prevent them from getting awry while the shirt is being worn, and thus preventing an unsightly appearance.

The particular difiiculty which is experienced in a shirt of this nature is that the front points of the collar tend to be pushed up by a necktie or t by friction with a coat collar so that the appearance is not neat.

A feature of this invention is the provision of tabs secured to the under surface of the points of such a collar, and means for securing these tabs to prevent the points from rising from the desired position.

Another feature of the invention is the provision of such restraining means without any portion of the necessary tabs, etc., being visible from the front of the wearer.

Another feature of the invention is the provision of such restraining means without the use of extra buttons to come off in the laundry and present a source of annoyance.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a shirt of my 30 invention with the tabs thereon restraining the points of the collar;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the shirt of Figure 1 with the points of the collar turned back to show the construction more clearly;

5 Figure 3 is a rear view of the front portion of the shirt shown in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a front elevation of a shirt similar to that shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, illustrating another and preferred manner of practicing the 40 invention;

Figure 5 is a front elevation of another shirt similar to that shown in the other figures, i1- lustrating a slightly different manner of practicing my invention; and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary view of another modification of my invention.

Similar reference numerals refer tosimilar parts throughout the drawing.

The drawing shows a shirt I having a collar 2 50 attached thereto, which collar terminates at the front in points 3 and 4; Attached to the under surface of the front points 3 and 4 of the collar respectively, so that they will not be seen when the shirt is being worn, are tabs 5 and 6 having 55 slits or openings 1 and 8 therein respectively.

These openings may be suitably bound so that they are in the nature of buttonholes. A button 9 is attached to the inside of the front band of the shirt which will be the under band when the shirt is buttoned. Underneath the collar and 5 hidden thereby are two slits or openings l and I l in the front of the shirt. These openings may also be suitably bound for protection against ravelling, etc. In utilizing my invention the wearer of the shirt slips the tabs and 6 through 10 the openings l0 and II and buttons the tabs to the button 9 by means of the buttonholes 1 and 8. The result is that the points of the collar are suitably restrained so that they present a neat appearance at all times and there is no visible evidence of the presence of any special structure for accomplishing this result.

In the form shown in Figure 4 the tabs 5 and 6, openings 1 and 8, and openings Ill and II are the same as in Figures 1, 2 and 3. In this figure, however, I secure the tabs by passing tab 5 through opening 8 in tab 6 and secure the tabs by buttoning tab 5 to one of the ordinary shirt buttons l2. In this form it will be seen that the tab 6 is under both of the front center bands of the shirt when the same is buttoned, while the tab 5 passes between the under front center band and the upper front center band and will be buttoned onto button 12 before the shirt is buttoned down on this button by fastening the buttonhole in the upper frontcenter band l3 to the button l2. In Figure 5 I have shown the tabs 5 and 6 in ,a more nearly horizontal position with the button 9 raised higher on the shirt in order to accommodate them in this position. As the points of the collar will be permitted to rise only a very short distance, this arrangement will ordinarily be satisfactory in holding the collar suitably restrained.

In Figure 6 the tabs 5 and 6 are similar to those shown in Figure 5, that is, they are adapted to be fastened straight across from collar point to collar point. In this figure the tab 6 has a buttonhole 8, as before, but the tab 5 has a button I4 secured thereto on which the buttonhole 8 is to be buttoned. This arrangement has the advantage of being simple and easy to manipulate, and has the additional advantage of providing a balanced restraining influence on the collar points. If one point tends to rise, the other must be pulled in.

It is obvious, of course, that the tabs may be attached to the collar at any suitable position, preferably reasonably near the points, just so there is sufficient room for them to pass through the openings in the shirt and still leave these 55 openings concealed by the collar. The tabs may, of course, be elastic, and I prefer at the present time to make them so. It will also be obvious that any suitable form of fastening may be used other than the button.

What is claimed is:

1. A shirt having a collar attached thereto, a tab secured to the under surface of each point of said collar, a buttonhole in each tab, openings in the front of said shirt through which said tabs may pass, said openings being concealed by the collar, and a button attached to the inside of said shirt to which said tabs may be buttoned.

2. A shirt having a long-pointed collar attached thereto, said shirt having a button tabs secured to the under surface of the points of said collar, openings in said tabs whereby one of said tabs may be passed through the opening in the other, and means for securing the other of said tabs to means on said shirt below the neckband to hold said collar in position.

3. A shirt having a collar attached thereto, tabs attached to the under surface of the points of said collar, openings in the shirt underneath said points through which said tabs may pass, and means for securing said tabs together and to the under surface of said shirt.

KENNETH P. SEACORD. 

